Example sentences of "when we [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 One other possible objection is that the difference which we are describing may be real but should not be regarded as part of syntax , rather as a variation that comes into play only when we focus on the correlation between linguistic expressions and external non-linguistic phenomena .
2 The possibility of severe limitations being placed on what fish can be kept by hobbyists when we join with the rest of Europe in 1993
3 We discuss and enjoy celebrating the seasonal festivals such at Christmas , Easter and Harvest , when we join with the rest of the Junior School in bringing our gifts for the sick , and those in need in the neighbourhood of the School .
4 When we return to the apartment , Maria has made a full confession and is asking Glass to help Leonard out of Berlin .
5 At the birth of a baby when we marvel at the appearance of new life .
6 Consequently , when we ask about the autonomy of classes within the complex whole we are not asking about their ability — or lack of it — to make choices , any more than we would ask if a force of production could choose .
7 When we pass to the treatment of style as representation we come to an approach to literature which is less likely to make such claims to scientific status ; for rather than defining style in purely linguistic terms , its purpose is to relate it to interpretations of literary content , and these must inevitably be somewhat approximative .
8 You 'll be aboard my ship when we sail on the Sunday tide , and I 'll warrant you 'll thank me for it in the years to come .
9 Even when we defer to a creature 's apparent preference ( for a particular type of food , let us say ) the decision will be dictated by our desire to keep it fit and healthy .
10 So when we come up the lane it was on the top here and er Sally 's dad was with it and then er the engine was still going so this girl , well erm one of them wenches
11 But if to an alehouse they customers be , Then presently with the ale wife we agree ; When we come to a reckoning , then we do crave Twopence on a shilling , and that we will have , By such cunning ways we our treasure do get , For it is all fish that doth come to our net .
12 It , there is no waste to that product , it is knitted and when we come to a part where you want it to be narrow , the machine shapes it .
13 In the first case of ( 21 ) , the subject is unquestionably Gustav 's chauffeur , and the range of possible referents or entities for mention is not further reduced when we come to the word sanest .
14 When we come to the works of man , cellulose is still in the leading place .
15 When we come to the West , it 's like Christmas — so many shops , so much to buy .
16 So this is an altogether new factor when we come to the detective novel .
17 Erm , Chair , I think when we come to the capital programme you will be proposing that the P A G advise you and the Director in terms of producing a package which meets those guidelines , erm , and given the opportunity to look at them in some detail .
18 I have no doubt that when we come to the election the electorate will have spotted that as well .
19 Birds , fish and invertebrates provide some fascinating instances of the use of tools , but it is only when we come to the mammals , and particularly the primates , that tool using begins to approach anything like its full potential .
20 I wo n't say anything now , but when we come to the recapitulation you 'll know what I am doing , and we 'll see what you do ’ .
21 When we come to the Sufis , death is seen from another world and it is seen transfigured .
22 When we come to the end of our own virtues and realize our inner poverty , it is then that we can start to experience ‘ the kingdom of heaven ’ in our lives .
23 When we come to the Cross .
24 If reading is complex , so also is writing ; and when we come to the mystery of literary composition , we can scarcely begin to explain the operations of the creative mind which result in a sequence of words on the written page .
25 When we come across a victim then , we should never attempt to solve their problems for them , since this only reinforces the idea that they are helpless victims of circumstance , with no strengths and resources of their own ; it disempowers them still further .
26 Anyway that 's what that was the time when I was sea sick , when we come across the channel .
27 She says when we come in the summer there are geese , then they 've gone at Christmas to be eaten .
28 When we drive down a road the road is the future : it is ahead of us .
29 Here then is a continuity between the early modern and the post/modern , one oft en overlooked when we concentrate on the differences in the way sexuality is conceptualized in the two periods .
30 Three questions are before us when we attend to the evidence on party programmes .
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